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I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet.
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.
